president bill clinton, former u.s. president bill clinton, has said something like simpson-bowles is a plan he would get behind. >> i was going to say could we raise the issue? you wrote a controversial column and it's getting some heat. >> i saw some things that paul krugman had written that trashed the idea of simpson-bowles and said if president obama is re-elected he should not resuscitate this idea. president clinton points out that bowles is an incredible human being. he thinks the world of him. thinks he's a great leader because he's also gotten a hot of grief from krugman, bowles himself. bowles was obviously the president's former chief of staff, and bill clinton while not coming out and endorsing everything in simpson-bowles said that this is a framework like larry summers said that you should use to bring both sides together. >> in the old days did we have to respond what che guevara was saying at any given time? >> i can't believe the way he trashed -- >> this was work because of the nobel prize -- he's bee